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Originally Posted by Truth-Finder
Here, another comment received from Historian Maike Vorgt Luerssen:
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I have my doubts with the fingerprint. Leonardo da Vinci had a workshop
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And I doubt that a fingerprint can give you the information that
he was an Arab oder the child of an Arab. Therefore I will write to our
Police Apartment Forensic Science and to our University Forensic
Science
and ask them personally if this is true.
I will come back to you!!!
Rgds
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As a matter of fact, This Mrs Luerssen has forwarded me the reply from the above named reply from the University Forensic Science dpmt:
I saw the article as well and was a bit baffled by the statement. I know of no work done which would allow racial identifications to be made using fingerprints. There is some racial profiling done in the States using DNA analysis, but even that tends to be indicative or it is reported as a probability of some kind that a person is afro-american, caucasian and so on.
However, I'm not a fingerprint expert, and it may be that recent work has been done around this topic.
Dr Douglas Elliot
Science Leader Director
Service Centre Forensic Science Programme
ESR University of Auckland
Auckland Auckland
NZ NZ